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Re: Millions of Ebola vaccine doses by end of 2015

Originally Posted by Kreton

Ebola has been known to be around for almost 40 years. Thousands of deaths. No vaccine. Been in the US for less than 2 months. 1 death. Vaccine coming. Tells you something about the value of life and money in our world.

Ebola killed 1,583 according to the wiki. Over 40 years. Compared that to:

935,000 a year for tuberculosis.
1,534,000 a year for HIV/AIDs.
130,000 a year for measles.
618,000 a year for malaria.
149,000 a year hepatitis B.
48,000 a year leishmaniasis.

I could go on.

... but you know, our medical infrastructures should drop all the resources from all those diseases and focus on ebola.

Re: Millions of Ebola vaccine doses by end of 2015

Ebola killed 1,583 according to the wiki. Over 40 years. Compared that to:

935,000 a year for tuberculosis.
1,534,000 a year for HIV/AIDs.
130,000 a year for measles.
618,000 a year for malaria.
149,000 a year hepatitis B.
48,000 a year leishmaniasis.

I could go on.

... but you know, our medical infrastructures should drop all the resources from all those diseases and focus on ebola.

Whether they should or shouldn't, it certainly seems like they did.

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